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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Got a copy of Masterminds of Programming, which has a silly title, but which includes pretty thorough, and very interesting, interviews with a number of designers of well-known programming languages, including: C++, Objective-C, ML, Haskell, Java, C#, BASIC, Awk, Perl, Eiffel and others. I find it fascinating how different these ...
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
Reading Programming Clojure, great introduction to the Clojure programming language.
Nice example of using Clojure to sweep a set of IP addresses to see who's running SSH
Write your Maven POM using YAML via the impressive Yamlpom plugin. Includes converter from POM XML to YAML, worked right out of the box.
Best Indian ...
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
(accidentally deleted this post; re-adding under the same date)
Just found this post on a discussion forum for an open source project called HandBrake. The author is one of the HandBrake developers, as far as I can tell. A must-read. To quote:
I am aware of no open source software either currently ...
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
I was just listening to a podcast introducing the F# language, and what struck me was that the two folks being interviewed--Chris Smith and Dustin Campbell--didn't talk at any time about F# being the next big language for the CLR. Rather, they focused on what they thought the advantages were, ...
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Since Sun announced the JavaFX meta-project awhile back (2007?), there's been a lot of commentary, mostly negative, on the effort; but I think a great deal of this misses the point, which is that FX is not primarily aimed at the RIA market, but at the much larger market of ...
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
I just came across PulpCore, a open-source 2D rendering and animation framework for the Java plug-in. I found the demos really impressive, in part because the experience of launching them was so straightforward and non-intrusive. It made me think--wait for it--that I was launching something in Flash. But these are ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
I've been meaning/intending to try out Google Guice for awhile now; just saw they threw together a simple graph visualization for dependencies declared in Guice. Looks nice. I haven't found a Spring visualization library yet that I like, and I don't use one. I end up having to keep track ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Fresh winds are whipping through the JVM development community, and they aren't--apart from JavaFX--coming from Sun. The hype around multiple ("more than 200!") languages running on the JVM has led an acceptance that running something other than Java, and something other than a simple scripting language, on the JVM, is ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
I thought it was worth mentioning that another stealth research project at Sun has been open-sourced (GPL v2.0), in this case, a new virtual machine written in Java called Maxine. There are presentation slides available from JavaOne 2008. Maxine came out of nowhere as far as I'm concerned; I'm ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
I decided to stop using a Java-based IRC client, jIRC for one written specifically for OS X (I've been using OS X at home and Linux for work)--the Mac utility, Colloquoy, is just excellent in all ways. And what I realized is that for some tools like this, the issue ...
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